SAFFRON TERRORISM

Dozens of
possible definitions have been suggested for the term “terrorism”. Politicians
have used a definition that suits their agenda while civil society has
introduced an emotional element to the classification. This uncertainty has
greatly compounded the difficulty in providing a precise meaning of the term.
However what has been agreed upon is that it involves violence and the threat
to violence. By the same token, war, coercive diplomacy and bar-room brawls
also involve terrorism.

Due to this
lack of an exact definition of the term, the international media and law
enforcement agencies’ onslaught with assumptions and deliberate repetitions of
Muslim names after each terror attack, implies that terrorism is a Muslim
speciality. It is no different in India.

The profile
of “terrorism” in India carries many faces. The Punjab terrorists are Sikhs,
the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) is a Hindu terrorist group.
Terrorist groups such as the Bodos and Mizos are Christians. In the context of
India’s occupation of Kashmir, the armed resistance of the Kashmiris against
the Indian military presence is characterised as terrorism while the armed
activities of the military which targets innocent civilians are referred to as
acts of self- defence.

In the last
decade or so, a number of terrorist attacks have been carried out in various
parts of India. Amongst others these attacks include:

Three bomb
blasts in the Muslim-majority city of Malegaon (September 2008). The
investigation into these blasts was carried out by one Hemant Karkare, an
honest, God-fearing and thoroughly professional Officer. He was chief of the
Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) in Mumbai. ( See “Who Killed Karkare” by S. M.
Mushrif, p 172, 173,174)

Attack on
the Sufi Shrine at Ajmer in 2007.

Interestingly,
the investigations into these so-called “terror attacks” were quickly taken
over by the Intelligence Bureau (IB) of the Government of India and not by the
judiciary as you would expect. The motive is to project the narrative of the IB
and the Brahminists and not that of a proper police investigation.

The general
public perception in India is that Muslims are by and large unpatriotic and are
inclined towards Pakistan. The non-Brahmins or the “untouchables” are highly
indoctrinated and believe that they are destined to belong to the lower caste
because of their birth and the Brahmins will always be the superior class,
almost divine and destined to rule Indian society for eternity. Therefore
the Brahmin element within Hindu society have infiltrated the IB to ensure that
their superior status is retained and maintained.

Independent
investigations suggest that a well organised and an extensive Hindu terror
network is responsible for the wave of deadly terror attacks around India,
previously blamed on radical Muslims.

Information contained in a 2011 confession, reported in an
Indian News Magazine and given in court by a Hindu holy man, advocates that he
and several others linked to a right-wing Hindu organisation, planned and
carried out attacks on a train travelling to Pakistan (the Samjhautha Express),
a Sufi shrine (Ajmer) and a mosque as well as two assaults on Malegaon, a town
in southern India with a large Muslim population.

It also suggests those involved were senior members of a
religious group that is the parent organisation of India’s ruling party, the
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). This religious group, the Rashtriya Swayamsivak
Sangh (RSS), established in 1927 and inspired by the Fascist movement in
Europe, are great admirers of Adolf Hitler.

The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the leader of the
BJP, which is the political wing of the RSS.

By the year 2000 the RSS had more than 60000 branches across
India and an army of more than 4 million volunteers. Their doctrine states that
India is for the Hindus only. Minorities within the country including foreigners
must be denied citizenship of India.

In his latest book “The Betrayal of India”, and revisiting the evidence submitted in the investigation
into the November 2008 Mumbai attacks, Elias Davidson is highly critical of the
official version. He makes the following conclusions: India’s major institutions, including the
Central Government, police and Intelligence services have deliberately
suppressed the truth and continue to do so and India’s judiciary has failed in its duty to
establish the truth and render justice.